Now that you play around with your new camera, you might be sucked into a photographic frenzy. By that time, you will have to choose which camera make to follow, because once you commit to one brand of camera, you are stuck as the lenses are not interchangeable.

Now that you play around with your new camera, you might be sucked into a photographic frenzy. By that time, you will have to choose which camera make to follow, because once you commit to one brand of camera, you are stuck as the lenses are not interchangeable.

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Not totally true, as some lenses have been modified to work on other systems. But for 99.9% of people, that is the case. I do have a friend who is a professional photographer who loves his Olympus. And he does have some very high end Canon gear as well.

Black Panther, there are some very good tutorials at http://photo.net/ .
Also, they do have Olympus user forums as well. Good site.

I currently use 2 4G and 1 8G SD cards for my Nikon D5000. Honestly, 2 4G cards should be plenty. As for which cards, you will have to check. Don't panic about the ultra speed cards, as those only show their worth on the big 20+ Megapixel cams.

I am not sure if xD is compatible with SD (I suspect not) and its obsolete, so you are better off with a high speed Compact Flash card which you may be able to use in other DSLR you have in mind. Most entry level DSLR nowadays use SD, so you might not be able to reuse your CF card, but you can easily sell them. 8GB is good if you are shooting RAW.

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xD is totally different than SD.

I personally have bought and used three Sandisk Xtreme III 30MB/s Edition 8GB SDHC cards. With my D60s, and my little sister's D3000, you can hold down the shutter in automatic mode, and take 3 shots a second until the cows come home, and it creates some really cool stop motion photo slides. I won't ever use anything else in a DSLR.